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I was given 2 x dual-core Xeon DP 2.8GHz (SL8MA Paxville DP, suitable for XC837 or XC838 motherboards only), so I tried them last night. No problem to report and performance naturally increased a little despite significant frequency drop compared to the single-core Irwindale Xeon 3.8GHz CPUs I previously had. GeekBench (32bit) reported a 20% improvement on resulting index and, with HyperThreading enabled in BIOS, OS X does report a total of 8 cores on the system . These dual-core Paxville Xeon CPU are reported as Core2Duo CPUs but, unfortunately, remain incompatible with Snow Leopard vanilla kernel; as such, modified/AMD kernels prevail... I'll have to see if Lion or newer OS X versions can be installed now...

I can confirm that DVI output of PR01X port replicator is fully functional OOB with D630 nVidia. http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&cs=ukbsd1&sku=a2962334 It is not working with D630 X3100 though.

Well, I can only recommend you follow the IM thread on Intel HD graphics. If you have the wrong eDP connector, you might as well just give up.

And if you use Yes as opposed to No?

You can manually enter the boot option GraphicsEnabler=No when you see the Chameleon delay bar or countdown. Failing that, you can use Chameleon Wizard to edit the boot plist, but that requires a booted system.

When you add a kext to /E/E, you need to run myHack->myFix (quick) to install it and update the cache before you reboot. Otherwise, it simply ain't loaded.

As I said, if you don't have the lspcidrv kext in /E/E, add it! Try and boot with Chameleon option GraphicsEnabler=No to see if it gets rid of that screen issue. But do read the IM thread about Intel HD as that will basically tell you if you can enjoy full graphics support or not. If you can't, it's not worth continue in my opinion... By the way, no double post for the same thing please...

That would be a good start, yes. Then you can start looking at tuning with FakeSMC to improve performance.

I'll let you do your own research & findings on that front. Google is your friend... Leopard is not a version we support here, it's too old.

Ouh, that's old! I don't think there is any support for X300 graphics card... Try it with Nawcom's ModCD + Retail Snow Leopard, you've got nothing (but time) to lose I guess. Target an external HDD. The wiki pages of insanelymac should give you a few pointers re: hardware compatibility. I'd say you'd have better chance of running Leopard than Snow Leopard on this old lady.

By nature, Hackintoshing can be and often is difficult! It's not meant to be, Apple make OS X is for Macs, not for PCs... Not all hardware is supported. If it were just like a Windows installation, none of this would be here, Hackintosh sites would not exist. Your model appears to have hardware incompatibilities, hence my warning. Look it up on the web. To move forward a little and assuming you have the lspcidrv.kext in /Extra/Extensions (if not, add it), post us the output of lspci -nn Terminal command.

Tuning SMBIOS plist is not sufficient, tuning FakeSMC goes with it. You need to look at the model that resembles your own system the most closely (CPU & GPU), then look up for the associated SMC Compatible value on the Net. But it's basically directly linked with your CPU model and I don't know what you have (smc-napa for FSB533/667 Merom, smc-mcp for FSB800 Merom/Penryn for instance, etc.)... I've no ready-made answer, you need to research this and experiment before you find the right settings. That's how we worked things out ourselves on Latitude D Series. Trial and failure, that's Hackintoshing! We've only used and referred to Kozlek's branch, haven't we? Use the above link.

You need to add the NullCPUPowerManagement kext to /Extra/Extensions of your USB installer, then run myHack->myFix (quick) on the USB installer before you boot it again to attempt installation. 'don't know if you've done much research on this model before, but have a good read at the thread below: http://www.osx86.net/topic/8965-how-to-install-snow-leopard-on-dell-inspiron-n5040-laptop/ Be prepared, this installation, if at all successful, may not be easy...

Try to boot with NullCPUPowerManagement as opposed to native CPU power management; alternatively ensure you have a Chameleon boot plist set with P & C States + a SMBIOS plist that uses the profile of a Mac model close to your Inspiron. If you have no discrete GPU but only Intel HD graphics, check the IM thread below to evaluate full graphics support capability as not having full graphics can be quite a deterrence to pursue any further: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286092-guide-1st-generation-intel-hd-graphics-qeci/?hl=intel%20hd

System's specs please...

An alternative can be to boot your myHack installer then go to Tools->Disk Utility and make an image of your existing ML installation that you would subsequently restore, via Disk utility, to the target HDD. That has always worked for me.

No issue re: power, no. My Vostro200 Power supply is rated under 300W too. We don't support those methods you've mentioned, they have their own dedicated web site. Here we support and advocate myHack... All I can say is you may not need a DSDT table if all your hardware appears detected & functional (eg: graphics, audio, etc.) and all expected features operating normally (eg: restart, shutdown, sleep, wake, etc.). Our bootpacks are a facility we provide for models we've setup and tested in order to ease installation for the mass, but it's nothing magical and anyone can, in theory, come up with a bootpack. They only require a bit of knowledge and experience.

'ever read this and/or this? Kozlek tends to bring out new versions of FakeSMC/HWMonitor every week so the versions mentioned in article and thread are now totally outdated, but principle remains the same with recent FakeSMC versions and I can confirm that you'd obtain similar results with say versions 6.0.10xx for instance. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/

EDP menu, top of your screen.

Absolutely, I got a similar GT610. The card was delivered with 2 low-profile backplanes as additional accessories to default full-height backplane: 1 low-profile for HDMI + DVI connector and 1 low-profile for VGA connector (that has extended ribbon cable). Look here for details. The X1300 kext in the Vostro200 bootpack is actually for SL only but it's been carried over by mistake; we need to take it out of the bootpacks and make that and EDP optional add-on like audio packs or wireless packs for instance.

Just patch yours as posted above.

I guess you have a duff USB installer. As long as you use myHack v3.1.2 + Generic/Specific bootpack, there should be no problem, at least with the D430. That model has long been supported.

That card was last supported in Snow Leopard. It's not supported since Lion. I did some extensive work on the matter but could not succeed in getting the card working 100% in Lion, I could only get FrameBuffer support, not full QE/CI: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1579-lion-on-dell-optiplex-755-with-radeon-x1300-128-mb/page-2 There is no support whatsoever fot ATI X1000 Series since Mountain Lion (no kexts or whatever) so you have to replace that card by a supported model. I can recommend nVidia GeForce G210 or GT610 as cheap low-end alternatives. Both work OOB.

Can't get what to work with your D430??? Intel WLAN cards are not supported.

The bootpack is as it always were. I can't see anything wrong with it.